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Private healthcare

July 2024

  • A patient undergoing laser eye surgery.

    Eye doctors say private cataract operations have hurt the NHS

    Public sector faces staffing and training problems and is less able to manage complex cases, survey finds

June 2024

  • Blurred doctor figure operating a Pet scanner with patient on in a modern hospital

    Tory party CEO is director at cancer care firm benefiting from NHS waiting lists

  • NHS workers

    How Wes Streeting could clear the NHS waiting list backlog and save money too

April 2024

  • Rosemary in her garden leaning against a wall.

    ‘No one’s being honest about it’: how NHS crisis forces patients to go private

    Long waiting lists are creating a boom in the medical insurance market, leading to fears of a long-term change in attitudes to the health service
  • Preparing for surgery in an operating theatre in a hospital in the UK

    Private health insurance market grows by £385m in a year amid NHS crisis

    Demand for private treatment booms as NHS waiting lists remain long, while more people also sign up for dental cover

    • Can Wes Streeting’s private sector plans save the NHS?

    • Wes Streeting defends Labour plan to use private sector to cut NHS backlog

    • ‘Middle-class lefties’ won’t stop Labour using private sector to cut NHS backlog, Streeting says

March 2024

  • John Crace

    Wishing John Crace and the NHS a good recovery

  • Doctor and Nurse preparing a hospital bed on a private ward in the UK

    Outsourcing NHS treatment to private sector leads to poorer patient care

  • Edward Bond in 2012

    Brief letters
    When Edward Bond came to my school to see students put on The Tin Can People

  • Close up shot of doctor counting pulse by holding hand of sick patient.

    The desperate struggle to access NHS treatment

  • Hopes of UK exit from recession boosted as GDP rises in January

  • Investors are making a fortune from UK healthcare. Why is nobody holding private equity to account?

    David Rowland

  • The Guardian view on the privatisation of health: outsourcing will not save the NHS

  • An agonising wait for surgery – and NHS rationing – forced me to go private

  • ‘My GP suggested it’: Britons explain why they went private for surgery

  • Private healthcare could become ‘a new normal’ as NHS grows weaker

February 2024

  • Child brushing their teeth

    How best to brush up on children’s dental health

  • Gloved hands preparing a coronavirus vaccine

    Pharmacies in England and Scotland to offer private Covid jabs – for £45

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